5 Pitfalls in IT Projects & How Staff Augmentation Solves Them

Let’s take a dive and provide you a perspective of why staff augmentation services can help you cure the 5 pitfalls in the IT projects, but first, the question is – Do you know what’s going on within the IT teams?

Well, to be honest it’s a kind of surreal situation for them. Nowadays, they have to streamline how they work so as to be in line with the current tech environment which is requiring them to fulfill the end user demands like – need a faster build for the module, make this customization a bit more deeper, maintain my system’s uptime, do ensure that it is scalable too. And yes, one more thing, all of this is to be managed within a tight deadline and budget!

So, coming to the point now, it does not matter if you are an ERP consultancy which works on providing a high grade complex Odoo implementation or a SaaS company that is growing and scaling globally, kindly note that your internal teams all alone will never be able to handle this kind of a pressure.

The question now comes, what kind of pressure is there within the internal teams which they are not able to handle? Well, needless to say the developers are still piling up the burden of having not delivered the old features, data cleansing is still a thing in the list and not worked on causing the data migrations to be postponed, God knows till when, integrations with third party payment processors, logistics, have not yet been completed which is causing project milestone delays, all because that the respective team members are not having domain expertise or we can say that they surely are missing a hand on that part too.

This all can be taken into account for the main reasons that can directly lead to your project breakdowns even before the launch phase. So, without further ado let’s cover the mistakes.

5 Common Mistakes That can make IT Projects Weak

1. lack of Right Skill Set for Complex industry Specific Projects

Who would not find it feasible to have a person who can try work in different industry verticals to align with the work chart but this is one of those mistake we need to care of and for sure this is not what every project requires. We need more than that, we should always hire industry specific skilled developers that have their hands on experience in a particular industry.

2. Issues with Regression Bugs & Challenges in Manual Testing

This is tried and we know it. So, when you have developed something and your testing team is still trying to fix the bugs that have come up after they were already resolved or during a new implementation when some other working features stop working, your manual testers are for sure not able to keep up with the respective sprints and these issues can go into to production environments. This directly has an impact on the trust factor that you have with your end client.

3. Custom Code That Prevents Further Upgrades

We all know it that a standard software will for sure require a customization part to fit in the requirements and workflows as per the client’s requirement. But here is the point, this part if done in the wrong way can directly lead to the project’s vulnerability and can hit the overall results. for example, if the developers are trying to override the core models in Odoo, but are forgetting or not checking the dependency on other modules, or a case like making hard coded logic then it can have a direct impact and give you nightmares. hence you are stuck on Odoo 14 while every one else moves to Odoo 18.

4. Disordered Integrations & API Breakdowns

Nowadays every one is interested in interconnected software like if we talk about a unified ERP system then CRM connects to accounting, inventory connects to logistic APIs. But if the integration part is not handled in a mature and skillful way like there are no retry mechanisms, webhooks are not properly logged, or there are no status callbacks all of the critical processes start to stall and the data is gone for ever.

5. Burnout & Missed Deadlines

This one is relatable to most human problems that we see on a day to day basis, teams being pushed further beyond their capacity and then this happens – the quality usually drops for their output produced and there is no creativity in the work done and they miss deadlines. Here, you must note that your top talents are stuck in firefighting bugs, working in weekends to meet their deadlines instead of helping you build innovations.

How Staff Augmentation with Skilled Specialists can help

Staff augmentation goes beyond simply adding developers, well it usually involves bringing in specific skill sets to your current teams at the point in their lifecycle where they are most needed. It’s your quick route to specialized knowledge without the extra costs of hiring full-time.

Deep-Skill Match for Important Positions

Let’s keep in mind one thing we should never be hiring for a one size fit types in case of developers or functional consultants or quality assurance. We must make it a practice to hire role specific professionals only that have a industry specific experience so that they can accordingly help in specific project requirements. Here at Apagen, we provide you with role specific and industry experienced staff like –

• Odoo Backend Developers
• Functional Consultants
• QA Engineers
• Migration Specialists
• DevOps/CI Engineers

Full Integration Into Your Delivery Workflow

You must know that the augmented experts that are onboarded are not freelancers, they are role specific professionals which have been augmented after thorough selection for a reason that is to work together with your internal teams and make your project delivery workflow process smooth.

What Changes After Staff Augmentation

Quicker Feature Rollout with Fewer Bugs

Now, with specific industry domain experts handling their part of work you can start delivering features in a streamlined manner. Quality assurance member(s) run in parallel with the dev members thereby covering the software testing part and you have a stable release at hand.

Easier Upgrades & No Downtime Changes

Now you have an organized code at hand with proper versioning system, distinct module separation by proper implementation of base logic, and testing the migrations make upgrades safe and easy.

Enhanced Team Spirit & Developer Retention

As you now have skill augmentation, your core team are more focused on meaningful work, they can proceed with the planning of architecture, product vision, make stakeholder communication without getting involved in routine developer or quality assurance based tasks.

Better Integration Reliability

The webhook event logging is smooth like butter and with proper SLA metrics you have the full authority to make your integration layer bulletproof.

Scalability Without Hiring Pains

You increase delivery speed without inflating payroll or spending 6–8 weeks on hiring and onboarding processes.

Outsmart Complexity, Don’t Tackle It Alone

So, you might have got it that the IT projects are not falling due to the unavailability of tools but because you are not having the right people at the right time. So staff augmentation is something that can get you the option to hire Odoo developer technical force exactly when you have the need and requirement.

Hence, skill augmentation allows you to hire role specific individuals and there are no long interviews, no onboarding delays, and most importantly no technical compromises.

lastly, just don’t allow these skill gaps, or may be the delivery delays, or technical skill problems slow down your growth.

Drop us a mail at sales@apagen.com or call us at +91-9971800665 with your requirements, and we will make sure to connect you with professional Odoo developers, functional consultants, QAs, and other specialists who’ll plug in and perform starting day 1.